Have you ever heard the limerick about the Plumber’s Leaky House? It goes something like: The best plumber in town, whose work is quite renown, sleeps soft and sound, in a house soaked year-round. In other words: a professional who works so hard on his client’s problems he never fixes his own. Sound familiar? For a long […]
Monday is Upon Us
Perspective, or Yet Another Story of Nick’s Incredibly Unhandy Exploits
So there they were – two black smudges. Unfinished work and smudges. My mortal enemies.
We Call It Tighty-Whitey Friday
A public service announcement for our burnt-out friends…
Want this on a t-shirt? Now you can have it… Thanks to you, this PSA hit #3 on the front page of Reddit on 9/20/2012. Totally honored. My favorite response came from Reddit user etan_causale: In April 2014, the PSA was shared on Cheezburger.com and was one of the most Upvoted posts:
How To Avoid Punching People who tell you to Follow Your Passion (and find yours along the way)
When your passions aren’t naturally things you can turn into products or services, the advice to follow your passions sounds like a load of crap, because it is when you don’t know what your passion is or how to find it.
How to fix US Politics (well, the ads at least)
This year alone, media stations are estimated to bring in $3 billion for political advertisements. While political candidates themselves have an agreed-upon rate that they can pay, super PACs do not and in fact sometimes pay more than four times the standard rate for advertisements. Like a drunk virgin on prom night, the media stations […]
The Right Way To Ask For Help
Many people have wonderful ideas but no clue how to market them. A few people want to build the next Facebook or implement some sort of get-rich-quick scheme, but they’re a rarity. When most people ask for help, it’s because they can identify with you personally and because they’ve identified your skills as the thing they’re missing.
I Got Here With Help
Each and every one of us has had those moments. We fall down – whether from exhaustion, lack of commitment, or just the circumstances of the environment. Almost always there is someone there to help us back to our feet.
And the horse you rode in on…
You can’t (and wont) trust an expert’s solution to a problem you can’t understand.